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PipeLineNews Archives: September 2012

Barack Obama: Stealth Candidate

September 27, 2012 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - In 2008 we put the below video together to show what Barack Obama was all about, how his world view was formed and where he learned the divisive techniques he has subsequently employed to build the large repressive state apparatus he now commands.

Unfortunately everything we predicted has come to pass, we now have our first neo-Marxist [possibly stealth Muslim] president, bent on turning the United States into a collectivist state.

Our early assessment has proven entirely correct.

In his run for reelection, the entire media with very few exceptions, has become an extension of the Obama press office.

There is nothing the hard left will hesitate to do in order to keep their Maximum Leader in power.

September 25, 2012 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - Though the event is limited to a single high school in Nairobi, Kenya, Mombasa's Muslims have reacted to the banning of hijab in the neighboring city with anger.

In a dispatch from the All Africa news website, the banning took place as a result of a judicial ruling in Nairobi which found that Kenya High School's [a girls only institution with an enrollment of 800] argument, that allowing certain girls to distinguish themselves by wearing the religious head garment would disrupt the high school's desire to promote a sense of equality through similarity in dress overweighed the claimed religious concerns of the Muslim litigants.

Hijab is worn in vary degrees by women within the Muslim world. It is generally not considered a requirement under Shari'a and has most widely been adopted by Muslims of Arabic origin.

In the Islamic countries which repress women the most, for example Iran and Saudi Arabia, religious headgear is mandatory to the point that hijab is considered insufficient and instead require the wearing of the full body covering, the burqa.

Since Iranians are not Arabs this is an exception to the ethnic linkage to the manner in which religious head gear laws are observed.

The overwhelming majority of Kenya's population are tribal, either Bantu or Nilotes [believed to have originally immigrated from Egypt's Nile Valley]. Arabs comprise less than one 1% of the ethnic mix. The city of Mombasa, a primarily Christian city in a Christian country, has over the last month seen a campaign of Muslim against Christian violence.

As we noted yesterday a September 7 piece, Mombasa Kenya New Flashpoint For Muslim Aggression, the Kenyan city of Mombasa, the country's largest, has been hit by a wave of religious violence recently. The pretext being used to fuel the aggression was the government's assassination of a major al-Shabaab terrorist, Aboud Rogo. Rogo has a long jihadist history.

"...At least five churches, including the Salvation Army one in the poor Muslim district of Majengo, were attacked during heavy rioting, local religious leaders say. Other churches have been attacked with grenades in separate incidents over the past year..."

We see the controversy at Kenya High School as part of a larger Islamist move in East Africa, with Somalia's terrorist al-Shabaab as the primary instigator.

Of course without fresh recruits, terrorist groups such as al-Qaeda and al-Shabaab would not be able to continue to wage the jihad at this level.

With this in mind the group has over the last 5-7 years been conducting da'wa operations in areas of the United States that are heavily populated by Muslims, many of whom originally came this country to escape the endless cycle of jihadistic warfare in Africa.

"...A wave of Americans traveling to Somalia to fight with Al Shabaab, an Al Qaeda-linked terrorist group, has been described by the FBI as one of "highest priorities in anti-terrorism."

These Americans have received weapons training alongside recruits from other countries ..Most of the American men training with Al Shabaab are believed to have been radicalized in the U.S., especially in Minneapolis, according to U.S. officials. The FBI alleges that these young men have been recruited by Al Shabaab both on the Internet and in person..."

"A Minnesota man recently traveled to Somalia to join al-Shabaab, a spokesman for his family said, renewing fears that the terror group is continuing to recruit Somalis living in the U.S. to return to their homeland to fight.

The investigation into al-Shabaab's recruitment of young men has been going on for years, and authorities have never ruled out that more men could be traveling from Minnesota -- home to the largest Somali population in the U.S. -- to join the terror group...in recent weeks, some Somalis here have been visited by the FBI and subpoenaed to appear before a grand jury -- possible signs that the investigation has picked up. The reasons for the subpoenas were not immediately clear. Authorities would not confirm that additional men have recently traveled to join al-Shabaab, and they would not say whether any increased FBI activity is connected to reports of recent departures or to the overall investigation...according to a spokesman for his family, 21-year-old Omar Farah left Minneapolis several weeks ago and called his aunt after his departure to say he was in the Somali town of Merca -- and that he was with al-Shabaab..."

Though some, including this president, are claiming that al-Qaeda has been decimated in the wake of bin-Laden's death, the reverse is really the case. Instead of standing and fighting in hostile situations which brought them directly [when there was an actual hot war on terror being conducted] into conflict with the U.S. military, the jihadists have simply picked up camp and moved to safer climes, i.e., especially other failed states such as Somalia.

From these safer locales al-Qaeda, al-Shabaab and the dozens of other similarly aligned terror groups, the jihad can be spread with much greater effect and far less risk.

Rather than simply republishing the piece here, we are offering the following as a tease. The entire piece may be accessed at Mr. Bostom's web presence, Andrew Bostom.

"As Americans solemnly commemorated the 11th anniversary of the cataclysmic acts of jihad terrorism on September 11, 2001, jihadists in Egypt and Libya were besieging our embassies in these Muslim countries, eventually murdering US Libyan ambassador Christopher Stevens, and three other US embassy officials. By Friday September 14, 2012, violent masses of Muslims were rioting in Israel, Gaza, Libya, Egypt, Yemen, Sudan, Tunisia, Morocco, Iraq, Iran, Kashmir, and beyond, using a very questionable American film which purportedly insulted Islam’s prophet Muhammad, as an alleged pretext. McCarthy’s remarkably compendious analyses make plain that these dangerous phenomena illustrate, graphically, the corrosive impact of the delusive misconceptions about Islam promoted by US policymakers.

This profound bipartisan US failure of imagination—and resultant failed policies—abetted the Orwellian-named “Arab Spring” uprisings for “democracy,” in reality a mass, popular Muslim movement rooted in Islam’s timeless jihad imperative to impose its totalitarian quintessence, the Sharia, or “Islamic law.”

Apocalypse Obama

By WILLIAM MAYER

September 20, 2012 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - We have discussed at length the series of actions [and the lack of action where required] taken by this administration which are the cause of the conflagration now engulfing the Middle East. Yes you are reading that correctly; Barack Obama has brought this crisis about by his own hand.

As a result the U.S. is facing a national security challenge which has no parallel at least this side of the 1962 Cuban missile crisis.

All eyes necessarily shift to Iran, whose hand the administration has made significantly stronger.

Some random speculation driven largely by two developments:

Item 1: U.S. Ambassador Susan Rice, on ABC News, Sunday morning, " What happened this week in Cairo, in Benghazi and many other parts of the region was a result, a direct result, of a heinous and offensive video that was widely disseminated, that the U.S. government had nothing to do with, which we have made clear is reprehensible and disgusting.”

A few days later the administration had to admit that it had not told the truth in the matter and that the Benghazi outrage was a planned terrorist attack probably attributable to al-Qaeda.

MPAC Strategy: Advance Shari'a Through Strategic Alliances

September 17, 2012 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - Muslims, even those who were born outside of the United States, have an uncanny grip on what makes American politics tick. Despite the barbarous proscriptions of their faith, they have figured out and embraced the concept that America really works through coalitions. Time and time again they tell their followers during tactical workshops at conventions and forums that Muslims must find a partner(s) and focus on an issue of interest to both parties.

None of Lenin's infantile leftism and self-segregation for them. Muslims can even unite with Christian fundamentalists if, say, there are plans in a community to build an adult book store near a school.

This past Sunday at the Islamic Center of Southern California, the Center and the Muslim Public Affairs Council MPAC [please refer to our June 11 expose, The Muslim Public Affairs Council: "Bullying" and Creeping Shari'a] jointly sponsored a program to commemorate the 11th anniversary of 9/11. Ostensibly the event was held to thank the Japanese American community for its rapid response to the Muslim community in the aftermath of 9/11. Then they offered solidarity and support and, in one case, the use of a Buddhist temple for Muslims in the event they needed sanctuary. Memories of internment camps danced in their heads as they vowed to stand shoulder to shoulder with Muslims to insure that Muslims would not suffer the same fate.

Looking back it is hard to see how Muslims could have succeeded in playing the victim card, but they did and continue to. I suspect that groups like MPAC reached out to the Japanese community first long before 9/11 to help establish themselves as a bona fide American organization by establishing links to groups in the community.

A video provided by the Japanese American National Museum was began the event. The video showed footage of Japanese American men, women, and children with a few meager possession getting ready to leave for Manzanar.

This was followed by the presentation of awards to four members of the Japanese American community. MPAC Executive Director, Salaam Al Marayati, was the MC. Each recipient gave a short speech telling of his or her fears after 9/11 that Muslims would suffer the same fate Japanese Americans had after Pearl Harbor.

The fifth speaker - and of course the reason for the event - was MPAC Senior Political Advisor and Center founder, Dr. Maher Hathout. Dr. Hathout, a master of "interfaith" and "intercommunity outreach," described what he deemed to be the current situation vis-à-vis Muslims in America today.

GOVERNOR MITT ROMNEY: Thank you, Ron. It's an honor to be here today. I appreciate that introduction. Thank you also Uzi Arad for all you and Ron do together to make this conference possible. It's good to be with you today at the Herzliya Conference. It's been a busy day for me today. I began with breakfast with Mel Sembler here in Jerusalem, saw the sun rise, and then along with friends, we traveled together to the border with Gaza, and then helicoptered to Alfe Menashe and then we helicoptered further to the Lebanese border. And we just made it in a few moments ago.

I am glad to be in Israel again ? in a country I love, with people I love. It's been 10 years since I was last here ? then, for about 10 days or so ? and the country has changed a great deal in that time. One, it's a lot greener ? even more trees ? more highways. I was really struck, however, by how vibrant the economy is. I must admit that as someone who spent most of his life in the private sector working with businesses, I have great respect for the ingenuity and the resilience of Israel's workers and entrepreneurs.

But the changes are not only economic and they are not only positive.

And it is not just that Israel that has changed ? the world has changed.

Unfortunately, many in our world have not caught up with the new strategic paradigm which we as a world face.

"Jihadism, violent, radical fundamentalism, has emerged as this century's nightmare"

[Editor's note given the unfolding tragedy taking place in the Middle East, we though it might be instructive to republish this now 5 year old piece, which demonstrates that Mitt Romney, then in a stage of exploring a run for the presidency in 2008, delievered a veritable broadside against the dangers posed by Islamism and its attendant Islamic jihad [likening it to the threat posed by the Soviet Union, during the Cold War We ask our readers to contrast this forceful unapologetic policy statement with the weasel words not coming out of the Obama WH and his befuddled Secretary of State, certainly the the worst in that position since at least Warren Christopher]

January 24, 2007 [Republished September 8, 2012] - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - On January 23, presidential hopeful Mitt Romney delivered a major address on the subject of terrorism to the Seventh Annual Herzliya Conference as it convened in Israel.

His speech to the assembly comprised of both American and Israeli politicians as well as security professionals was noteworthy because it was the first time that he had formally and directly addressed the war on terror since the announcement of the formation of an exploratory presidential campaign committee.

Romney's presentation demonstrated an acute grasp of the threat that Islamism presents to the West and how that challenge has fundamentally changed our security paradigm:

"Unfortunately, many in our world have not caught up with the new strategic paradigm which we as a world face. In that old view, the Arab-Israeli conflict was thought of as an intractable regional conflict. One that drags on?that should be resolved?but is not part of a global threat to the world order.

9/11 changed that. Or it should have. Contrary to the Baker-Hamilton Commission, resolving the Arab-Israeli conflict will not magically mollify the jihadists.

What we should have realized since 9/11 is that what the world regarded as an Israeli-Arab conflict over borders represented something much larger. It was the oldest, most active front of the radical Islamist jihad against the entire world. It was not really about borders. It was about the refusal of many parts of the Muslim world to accept Israel's right to exist - within any borders."

Remarking that the magnitude of this sea-change has not yet been internalized by all, the Governor observed:

"I think it is critical that we understand that as far as our enemies are concerned, there is just one conflict. And in this single conflict, the goal of destroying Israel is simply a weigh station toward the real goal of subjugating the entire world. Jihadism - violent, radical fundamentalism - has emerged as this century's nightmare It follows the same dark path as last century's nightmares: fascism and Soviet-styled communism. "

He also underlined the paradox of power, that despite America's tremendous military might, national will - something many see as currently wavering - might well be the deciding factor in the outcome of the conflict:

Obama's Chickens Come Home To Roost

By WILLIAM MAYER

September 12, 2012 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - Indicative of the indignation being voiced by American citizens over the events which have transpired over the last 24 hrs in the Middle East, today, Congressman Allen West (R-FL) issued a presser expressing outrage over the Obama administration's appeasement of Islamism, which has now resulted in the murder of the United States' Ambassador to Libya, Christopher Stevens and other at the hands of a fanatical Muslim mob.

“Less than 24 hours after our nation remembered the heinous attacks of September 11, 2001, Americans find their sovereign soil attacked again as more American lives are lost at the hands of intolerant, barbaric, radical Muslims.

United States Ambassador to Libya, Christopher Stevens, and several embassy staff were murdered late yesterday when suspected religious extremists stormed the United States Consulate in Benghazi. This morning, my condolences and prayers go out to the families of the victims. Americans need to question whether the deaths of these innocent patriots could have been avoided. The Obama Administration touted the Arab Spring as an awakening of freedom, which we now see is a nightmare of Islamism.

Even more concerning, is the initial response to these attacks last night from the embassy officials of the Obama Administration was to apologize for a Facebook video that supposedly hurt Muslim feelings. President Obama's policy of appeasement towards the Islamic world has manifested itself into a specter of unconscionable hatred.

How anyone can believe this President is strong on national security and foreign policy is beyond my comprehension. President Obama has clearly surpassed former President Jimmy Carter and his actions during the Iranian Embassy crisis as the weakest and most ineffective person to ever occupy the White House."

We could hardly agree more with the Congressman.

President Obama is entirely responsible for the foreign policy disaster which has engulfed the Middle East and this is arguably the most serious breach of U.S. national security interests since the events which led up to the Korean War.

He owns this.

Barack Hussein Obama started the process with his June 4, 2009 Cairo speech - delivered at Jihad Central, Al-Azhar University. We must note here that the Obama administration personally invited top leaders of the terrorist Muslim Brotherhood as VIPs to watch him deliver his Cairo address, a fawning, dhimmi tinged attack on American tradition and values which served to stoke Egypt's long suppressed jihadist to take to the streets, hence the "Arab Spring," a disaster clearly in the making from its outset.

The Cairo debacle was quickly followed by other actions highly injurious to U.S. interests in the region - short order this administration willfully:

1. Materially and intentionally damaged the special relationship between the U.S. and Israel.

2. Ran from Iraq, callously casting aside the thousands of American servicemen who gave their lives for this cause.

3. Refused to give his generals the troops they needed to prevail in Afghanistan and. compounding matters, entered into negotiations [in Qatar] with the enemy, the barbarous Taliban, so that upon the U.S. exit, the country would be gift wrapped and handed over to those who harbored al-Qaeda.

4. Sold out and abandoned former U.S. ally, Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak and unleashed the full fury of the Muslim Brotherhood.

5. And, taking a page from his close advisor on such matters, the radical former PLO spokesman Rashid Khalidi [one of Obama's buds from his Columbia days], placed the entire weight of the U.S. foreign policy establishment at the service of the so called "Palestinian Cause," which is the leading edge of the Islamic jihad which exists for the sole purpose of destroying the Jewish state.

So serious is this matter that the House of Representatives should immediately commence investigating the possibility of bringing this president to justice via the remedies provided for handling such exigencies in Article II of the United States Constitution, Section IV which states, "The President, Vice President, and all civil Officers of the United States shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other High Crimes and Misdemeanors."

Yes, it's far past time to start the process of drawing up articles of impeachment, this president is acting in a deliberate manner to materially harm the security of the United States. If the voters do not act in November, the Congress will have no other option but to press forward.

Mr. Obama must be removed from office - his chickens have come home to roost.

Outrage: Egyptian Islamists Breach U.S. Embassy Walls, Tear Down American Flag, U.S. Embassy Attacks American "Incitement' As Offensive To Shari'a

September 11, 2012 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - The U.S. embassy in Cairo has been attacked by a mob of enraged Islamists who breached the defensive perimeters of the compound, tore down the American flag and replaced it with a black flag adorned with triumphalist Islamic slogans.

What has the reaction to this outrage been by Team Obama?

Why, respond in pure dhimmi mode, pandering to Egypt's burgeoning jihadist revival, which now is of course led by President Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood, who is scheduled to visit the WH in a few weeks.

So we find that today of all days, on the 11th anniversary of the Islamist attack on the United States which claimed 3,000 lives, ;the Obama administration, via its Egyptian ambassador, actually issuing an attack on the free speech rights of American citizens.

In a de-facto manner this administration is acting as a domestic enforcer of Shari'a, Islamic law.

September 8, 2012 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - As we noted yesterday in Mombasa Kenya New Flashpoint For Muslim Aggression the Kenyan city of Mombasa, the country's largest, has been hit by a wave of Muslim on Christian violence recently. The pretext being used to fuel the aggression was the government's assassination of a major al-Shabaab terrorist, Aboud Rogo.

"...At least five churches, including the Salvation Army one in the poor Muslim district of Majengo, were attacked during heavy rioting, local religious leaders say. Other churches have been attacked with grenades in separate incidents over the past year..."

The last 24 hrs have seen the undertow of violence escalate into major riots accompanied by looting. The Kenyan government is taking a stern approach and over 40 rioters have so far been arrested, though keeping on top of the latest developments is difficult given the paucity of media coverage of African news.

The tenor of these attacks has markedly changed as the level of mayhem is increasing, with mob actions quickly morphing into more focused and coordinated attacks with a definite military flavor.

Military hardware, believed to have been provided by Somalia's al-Shabaab is starting to show up. Kenya has a sizable number of Somalis [making them a tenable fifth-column] within its borders and tensions between the two countries have been on the rise over the last year, with Kenya mounting cross-border attacks against suspected al-Shabaab strongholds. [Note, al-Shabaab is the Somali franchise of al-Qaeda]

"Kenyan police seized more than 150 detonators in Nairobi on Friday, highlighting the security risks the east African country faces ahead of an election next year because of its struggle with al Qaeda-linked militants in neighboring Somalia. Home to a large Somali population, Kenya has been hit by a wave of grenade attacks after its troops crossed into Somalia last year to crush al Shabaab Islamists it blamed for kidnappings and bomb attacks on its own soil..."

The pattern of jihadist violence which seems to slowly be engulfing Mombasa is indicative of the deadly serious nature of the renewed al-Qaeda push in Africa. The strategic goal here, aside from simply gaining greater control over African real estate, is creating a radical Islamic crescent of influence extending from North Africa [Libya & Egypt] through Somalia and Kenya in East Africa.

If this plan is permitted to solidify, Saudi Arabia, not so far to the North, could become imperiled by the Islamist foward base of operations in Africa.

Evidence of the effort to topple Kenya is demonstrated by the close cooperation now being shown between Africa's various jihadist entities, especially the "big three," al-Qaeda, Boko Haram and al-Shabaab.

"...General Carter Ham, head of the US military's Africa Command, said there were signs that Boko Haram in Nigeria, al-Shabaab in Somalia and al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb were sharing money and explosive materials and training fighters together. Each of those three organisations is by itself a dangerous and worrisome threat. What really concerns me is the indications that the three organisations are seeking to co-ordinate and synchronise their efforts – in other words, to establish a co-operative effort amongst the three most violent organisations … And I think that's a real problem for us and for African security in general..."

Though the import of this developing alliance between Africa's jihadist forces should prove troubling to this WH, there has been little evidence that the president is paying attention.

Muslims in Holland Sympathize With Former Maoist and Pro- Palestinian Socialist Party

By EMERSON VERMAAT

September 11, 20122 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - Once, the Socialist Party (SP) in Holland, founded in 1972, was openly sympathizing with Maoist China and the brutal former Soviet dictator Stalin. They were still distributing Mao’s and Stalin’s works five years later, in 1977, that is. They broke with China after the Soviet-Chinese rift deepened and the Chinese leadership openly called on Maoist political parties to support the Western alliance of NATO. There are still some remnants of the SP’s Maoist past, for example, the typical Maoist star inside the party symbol (a red tomato). They are also very pro-Palestinian. What is worrying, however, is the fact that the Socialist Party is doing fairly well in the polls, though no longer so well as they did a few weeks ago. They now insist on joining a new coalition government after the parliamentary elections of September 12, 2012.

Joël Voordewind and Kees van der Staaij, two Christian members of parliament in Holland, recently pointed out that there could be a pro-Palestinian majority in parliament after these elections. In the past two years those MP’s who wanted to condemn Israel failed to a reach majority vote on this issue. Especially the Green Leftist Party (GL) and the Socialist Party displayed fanatical opposition to Israel. They invariably introduced motions against Israel knowing that the parliamentary majority would reject them, Van der Staaij pointed out. Instead, parliament adopted a motion that called on the Dutch government to reconsider support for the Palestinian Authority (PA) when they (the PA) sow hatred and glorify violence. However, the government failed to carry out the motion, even though Van der Staaij pointed to a well documented report issued by Palestinian Media Watch (PMW), an institute that closely monitors anti-Semitic statements and articles in the Palestinian media or by PA clerics. For example, it was last January that PA Mufti Muhammad Hussein called for the killing of Jews quoting Islamic Hadith (tradition). He said, “Our war with the descendants of the apes and pigs (i.e., Jews) is a war of religion and faith.” “Oh Muslim, servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me. Come and kill him.”

“Hamas, Hamas, all the Jews to the gas!”

The SP and the Green Party rarely if ever criticize such anti-Semitic statements by prominent Palestinians. Instead, Harry van Bommel, the SP’s foreign policy expert, is a staunch defender of Palestinian causes and a fanatical opponent of NATO policies. He stands as candidate number 4 in the SP list of candidates for the 2012 elections. In addition to being a womanizer who has a reputation of harassing younger women, “Dirty Harry” is also Vice Chairman of the Dutch parliamentary foreign affairs committee. Indeed, a man whose influence on Dutch foreign policy should not be underestimated.

Harry van Bommel participated in many anti-American and pro-Palestinian demonstrations, even when angry Muslim immigrants in Holland shouted anti-Semitic slogans such as “Hamas, Hamas, all the Jews to the gas” (“Hamas, Hamas alle Joden aan het gas!”). This occurred on at least two occasions. Thus, on April 13, 2002, Harry van Bommel and the infamous Gretta Duisenberg, another fanatical Dutch leftist who embraces Palestinian causes, were prominent participants in an Amsterdam demonstration “to stop the war in Palestine.” Eric Krebbers and Jan Tas, two Amsterdam leftists who witnessed the demonstration, were really shocked and disappointed by what they saw and heard. They wrote an important article calling the Amsterdam demonstration “the biggest manifestation of anti-Semitism since 1945.” (During the Second World War the Nazis also occupied Holland and deported more than 100,000 Dutch Jews to the notorious death camps of Auschwitz-Birkenau and Sobibor, among them the large Jewish community of Amsterdam and a teen-age girl named Anne Frank.)

“There were hundreds of anti-Semitic statements and words throughout the entire demonstration,” Krebbers and Tas write. “Thousands of voices shouted anti-Semitic slogans – for example, ‘Sieg Heil!’ Some other anti-Semitic heroes such as Bin Laden and Saddam Hussein were also glorified. Some demonstrators carried pro-Bin Laden T-shirts. Anti-Semitic organizations were also popular. The slogan ‘Hamas, Hezbollah, Jihad!’ was shouted frequently, as well as ‘Hamas, Hamas, gas all the Jews.’” There was a banner saying, ‘Hitler forgot one: Sharon.’” There were numerous banners and slogans linking Israel to the Nazis. “Israel is a Nazi State,” and “Jews are Nazis,” “Stop the Palestinian Holocaust,” for example. An Arab song was sung announcing a repetition of Mohammed’s massacre of the Jews. A notorious Nazi slogan called “Juden raus!” (“Get rid of the Jews!”) was also heard.

A defenseless Jewish tourist wearing a kippa was nearly beaten to death by angry young Muslim demonstrators in, mind you, the very spot in the city center where the victims of World War II are remembered each year in May. He had to flee into the nearby Krasnapolsky Hotel. Subsequently, stones were thrown through the front windows of that hotel.

I still very well remember how back in April 2002 two colleagues of mine returned from Amsterdam. They, like me, worked for “Tweevandaag,” a popular news program on Dutch TV at the time. Gerben van IJken and Geertjan Lassche showed me hundreds of photos of the Amsterdam demonstration they had taken. They were very shocked indeed by what they had witnessed there. “This is how Gaza is being imported to Holland!” Gerben van IJken told me trembling with anger. The two young journalists displayed a selection of their photographs on a wall in their office. Our boss, a newly appointed editor-in-chief, was, so it seemed to me, anything but happy about my colleagues’ “unauthorized” visit to Amsterdam. There was an excellent opportunity to denounce the new and vicious kind of anti-Semitism brought to peaceful Holland by Muslim immigrants who align themselves with neo-Nazis and radical leftists. However, this opportunity was missed at the time. (I still remember how a vocal critic of “multiculturalism” such as Pim Fortuyn was severely criticized by many liberal journalists, including Christian colleagues of mine.)

Socialist Party’s foreign policy expert Harry van Bommel and Hamas apologist Gretta Duisenberg were also prominent participants in another pro-Palestinian demonstration in Amsterdam – this one took place on January 3, 2009. Positioned right in front of the demonstrators, both van Bommel and Duisenberg shouted the slogan “Intifadah! Intifadah! Free Palestine!” Intifadah means (Palestinian) revolt or uprising. It happened to be right behind the two prominent Dutch demonstrators that some Muslim demonstrators began to shout the anti-Semitic slogan “Hamas! Hamas! All the Jews to the gas!” I saw this footage on You Tube myself – several times, that is. It was as if the Nazis had once again occupied the Netherlands.

The demonstrators went to the famous Museum Square, right in front of the National Museum. Few people still know it, but it was at this very spot that a huge liberation festival was organized on May 5, 1945. Back then, in May 1945, the Netherlands had just been liberated from the brutal Nazi occupation – the same Nazi occupiers who hated our Jewish countrymen sending so many of them to the gas chambers. Now, some idiotic extremists once again desecrate the ground by calling for the extermination of the Jews. It is a sacrilege and no decent and sincere Dutch citizen ¬ – let alone a member of parliament – should participate in such a demonstration.

Beware of the Socialist Party’s foreign policy

Let us just imagine that Harry van Bommel’s Socialist Party would join a coalition government after the elections of September 12, 2012. Not only would that mean economic gloom and doom (the party wants to increase government spending and taxes, discourage the hard-working middle class, cut the defense budget and send more money to corrupt Africa), also would it have catastrophic consequences for Dutch foreign policy. If a man like Harry van Bommel would be the next foreign minister, Dutch foreign policy is bound to change in a markedly pro-Palestinian direction. Van Bommel and his socialist ilk also sympathize with fellow socialists Hugo Chávez and Evo Morales, two highly controversial Latin American presidents who align themselves with Holocaust deniers – the Islamo-Fascist rulers of Iran, that is. All Holocaust deniers are anti-Semites. There are no exceptions.

Even a Dutch centrist party such as D66 warns that the Socialist Party cannot be trusted. They don’t want to join any coalition government in which the SP participates.

Muslim immigrants in Holland are playing an increasingly important role in Dutch politics. Dutch politicians must take into account the wishes of the Muslim electorate. More than forty percent of all immigrants are Muslims. (In France it is even nearly seventy percent.) The Amsterdam based newspaper Het Parool reported at the end of August that many Muslims feel betrayed by the Dutch Labor Party (“Partij van de Arbeid” or PvdA), and now favor the more radical Socialist Party. Quoting an investigation by the Institute Forum the paper says that the SP is now the party most favored by Turkish, Moroccan and Surinamese immigrants.

Emerson Vermaat is an investigative reporter in the Netherlands. To visit his website please take this hyperlink Emerson Vermaat

September 7, 2012 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - MoveOn, a Soros funded organization and one of the primary tools of the neo-Marxist left, appears to be freaking out after president Obama's less than rousing acceptance speech last night at the DNC.

In an email just received Move On whined:

"...we are the change. President Obama won in 2008 because of people like us—including a million MoveOn volunteers—and he absolutely cannot win again without that kind of support...But if too many of us don't volunteer and sit this one out, we'll lose this election. That's why we're asking you to commit to helping out for even a couple of hours before Election Day...You'll be recruiting MoveOn members in swing states to join our new "Voters Rising" election program—which will get crucial swing state voters to the polls by partnering with the AFL-CIO to run the largest independent voter turnout program in America..."

We smell real fear here and MoveOn has every reason to be concerned. Obama's neo-Marxist experiment has blown up in his face, especially with the release to today's employment numbers which show that last month 400,000 people were so discouraged by the Obama economy that they left the labor force.

The economy seems to be headed towards a double dip recession, Iran is on the verge of developing nuclear weaponry, Syrian is imploding, Hugo Chavez has been holding an American flagged ship illegally for at least a week and Christians are being crucified by Islamic extremists in Egypt, yet this president seems oblivious to the coming catastrophe.

Last night's address by the president indicated a complete disconnect from the realities being faced by American workers and the national security challenges facing the United States.

Young college graduates conned by Obama's promises that jobs would be awaiting them upon graduation have incurred huge amounts of debt to finance their education which they are unable to pay back.

Now many of them are living with their parents in the same rooms in which they grew up looking at the fading "Yes We Can" Obama posters on their walls with a growing sense of desperation and anger.

If MoveOn seriously expects these disillusioned young people to volunteer for the architect of their current woes they are going to be very surprised on the morning of November 7.

Mombasa Kenya New Flashpoint For Muslim Aggression

September 7, 2012 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - Kenya, Africa is a largely Christian nation. According to the generally reliable CIA Factbook the country is 88% Christian, with 45% of the population Protestant, 33% Catholic, Muslim 10% and an additional 10% professing various indigenous religious beliefs.

Kenya is one of the continent's few economic success stories, Having gained its independence from Great Britain in 1963, its current GDP exceeds $70B.

In recent history Christians and Muslims tended to co-exist [with many instances of Christian charity extended to desperately poor Muslims] over the last year though this has changed for the worse.

"...A Kenyan Muslim cleric accused by Washington of supporting al Qaeda-linked militants in Somalia was charged on Monday with inciting violent protests that rocked the port city of Mombasa last week. Abubaker Sharif allegedly urged protesters to burn down churches and kill police officers in Kenya's second-biggest city during riots that killed five people, including three police..."

On August 27 a radical imam, Aboud Rogo, was apparently assassinated by Kenyan government forces in an attempt to halt al-Qaeda influence which has been imported from Somalia.

Rogo was free at the time but had served time on previous terrorism charges and is suspected of having been involved in numerous other terror related bombing incidents. He is widely believed to have been a member of the Somali franchise of al-Qaeda, al-Shabaab.

Since Rogo's death other Islamist imam's have stepped in to stoke anti-Christian mayhem, which has resulted in an increasing campaign of Muslim led violence against Christian churches.

"...At least five churches, including the Salvation Army one in the poor Muslim district of Majengo, were attacked during heavy rioting, local religious leaders say. Other churches have been attacked with grenades in separate incidents over the past year..."

Unfortunately this trend does not appear to be going away, al-Qaeda/al-Shabaab being dedicated to violently imposing Shari'a wherever it can.

Africa has been targeted for a number of reasons.

On average it is a desperately poor continent - albeit one with a few relatively upwardly mobile nations, Nigeria and Kenya being examples - and thus has many failed states, witness Somalia. This is the perfect environment within which insurgents can thrive.

Additionally Africa's politics are largely ignored by DC and the continent seems to reel from one disaster to the next, many of them centered on violent confrontations, sometimes of tribal origin, but now largely involving the continuing jihad being led by al-Qaeda and its various factions.

These events should provide proof enough that al-Qaeda is quickly recovering its vitality after its setbacks in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The State Dept. has said little regarding the brewing Kenyan religious warfare.

QUESTION: There was a militant suspect called Aboud Rogo who was shot in Mombasa, and I wonder if you have any information about that. Apparently, he’s suspected to be a member of al-Shabaab, and his wife is claiming that the Kenyan police shot him.

MS. NULAND: Matt, I don’t have anything on that. Let me take it and see if we have anything to get back to you on..."

Another case of Team Obama being asleep at the switch.

Al-Qaeda is on the march in Africa and the West had better start paying serious attention.

North Korea Publicly Joins the Islamic Jihad While U.S. Armed Forces Morale Trapped in Team Obama's Sinkhole

By WILLIAM MAYER

September 4, 2012 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - Three seemingly unrelated recent events are providing compelling evidence that president Obama's non-traditional view of America's rightful place in the world has led to the implementation of policies which in less than four years have greatly damaged U.S. national security.

So comprehensive has been the effect of Team Obama's approach to foreign policy that it may be very difficult to quickly change course, even assuming that he will no longer govern past January of 2013.

The primary reason is that the president has set in motion what is almost a self-fulfilling prophesy that has already become integrated into the political calculus of America's aggressive foreign adversaries.

From his public statements as president to his previous career as Alinsky influenced "community organizer," it's clear that Barack Obama has a deeply ingrained antipathy towards the United States and believes that America's dominant influence in world affairs was obtained in an illegitimate manner - due to the nation's rapacious imperialistic character.

This narrative plays into the essential core mantra emanating from our most vocal adversaries, jihadist Muslims, that Western society has failed and will eventually succumb to a "superior" Shari'a based ideology.

While this has long been asserted by the Islamists [and their allies in this venture, China and Russia - minus of course the emphasis on jihad and the re-establishment of the caliphate] Team Obama's self-flagellation, its eagerness to embrace the view held by this country's post-World War II enemies can only have resulted in a strengthening of their resolve.

Here we look to the president's Cairo speech as the launching pad for deconstructing America.

Obama's harsh criticism of his own country, passionately delivered within the confines of the seat of Islamic jihad, Egypt's Al-Azhar University , provided the most visible proof yet that America's moment in history is over.

In fact the president's foundational attack on the United States in Cairo was far more effective than similar ones mounted by obvious foes because it came within the same ideological framework used by those who seek to destroy America, with the important caveat that it carried far greater weight and clarity given his position as the implied "leader of the free world."

Regardless of who occupies the Oval Office after the November elections, the next presidency will face the stark challenge of dealing with a world which is far more hostile to American interests and less respectful of U.S. military might than was the case during the - much despised in some circles - Bush years.

Let's posit that while the critique of American power offered by Mr. Obama didn't build upon the indictment of the West previously offered by our Islamist adversaries, its mere affirmation by this president, will require a substantial commitment to counter its effect, one which will almost undoubtedly require the use of American military force.

The critique of America as a morally corrupt enterprise whose influence was quickly waning resulted several generations ago in coinage of the term "paper tiger."

This descriptive phrase came into the public lexicon courtesy of Communist China's blustering Chairman Mao Zedong, a dictator known for his ruthless domestic purges which claimed tens of millions of victims over a relatively short time span.

At the time, the mid 1950s, America was the world's preeminent military and industrial power, though certainly the Soviets loomed as an emerging counterpoint, especially upon its launch of the world's first earth orbiting satellite in 1957, Sputnik.

However, rather than accepting the frightening idea of a perpetual technological/military/industrial parity between the U.S. and the USSR, the Soviet triumph was short lived, quickly countered by a forceful rejection of the premise which was delivered by an unprecedented commitment by a Democrat, John Kennedy, to land a man on the moon by the end of the 1960s, which did indeed happen less than a decade later, in 1969.

So, in essence Chairman Mao's boast was merely that, the sound of a man whistling past the graveyard at midnight.

U.S. supremacy in such matters has not been seriously challenged since..that is until now.

As exhibit "A," we note the announcement that North Korea and Iran have entered into a formalized program of technological exchange, code for North Korea assisting Iran in its building nuclear weapons.

We believe that though such assistance from Korea, as well as Pakistan, Russia and China has been ongoing for quite some time, this weekend's joint announcement constitutes a direct political challenge to the U.S. What Iran and North Korea are saying here is akin to a taunt, that they are doing this in our face and you we are powerless to stop it.

That is always the ultimate effect of perceived weakness which this administration has cultivated. In real world power politics Obama's manner of self-restraint has proven provocative rather than palliative.

From Reuters:

"Iran and North Korea have signed an agreement to cooperate in science and technology, Iranian media reported on Saturday, and Iran's supreme leader declared that the two countries had "common enemies...North Korea has had close ties with Iran. Leaked U.S. diplomatic cables from 2010 showed that U.S. officials believe Iran has acquired ballistic missile parts from North Korea [source, Iran, N. Korea Agree to Cooperate on Science and Technology

Exhibit "B." is similarly disquieting.

As background, last month, authorities in our erstwhile ally in the "war on terror," Pakistan, arrested an 11 year old Christian girl, Rimsha Masih - believed to be suffering from a serious mental disorder - on charges of blasphemy, having been accused by a local imam, among others, of burning pages from the Qur'an, a serious violation of the Shari'a. [see, Pakistani Blasphemy Case - Neighbors of the Accused Girl Worry About Violence] She was immediately arrested and has from then on been imprisoned where she is reportedly - and understandably given her tender age, her fragile mental state and the fact that she is like not guilty of the charge in the first place - not faring well.

Such actions are typical in Pakistan [and other Middle Eastern countries] where Christians and other non-believers routinely suffer such abuse. In once recent example a man was beaten to death and burned by a group of angry Muslims over similar imagined or concocted charges.

In Masih's case the police station where she is being incarcerated has on occasion been surrounded by mobs numbering in the hundreds demanding Islamic justice be meted out to this innocent, which under the Shari'a means death.

As in all such matters Team Obama's State Department, led by Hillary Clinton, has essentially been mum. This is now a clearly established pattern of this administration, Pakistan has over the previous years received billions of dollars in assistance, yet we carefully maintain the chimera that we are powerless to intervene in the most horrendous and hideous cases such as this.

These are not the actions of a secure and confident super power.

Exhibit "C," in an odd way, completes the loop so to speak, showing the overall effect that such policies have had domestically, with an even more disquieting example.

The abstract of this survey is that the U.S. Military is dispirited and that morale is low, driven there by a combination of factors all attributable to policies set forth by the Obama administration. The first of these is the wide imposition of severe language and training restrictions on how Islamic terrorism is dealt with [now "man caused disasters"] and the second involves the negative impact that this administration's downsizing of the military has produced.

Regarding the simple question of whether active duty officers felt that the U.S. Army is "going in the right direction," only a tiny minority - 26% - responded in the affirmative.

"...one of the two main themes cited by those who say no is that the Army is now adversely impacted by "political correctness" imposed by both outside policymakers and senior Army leaders...Secondly," said the report, "several comments indicated that political correctness or the influence of politics in the Army is a reason the Army is not headed in the right direction. These comments generally cited the negative influence of government policy makers (outside the Army) as being detrimental to the future of the Army, and indicated that senior Army leaders themselves felt the need to bow to 'politically correct solutions' to appease policy makers, or to 'play politics' within their own organizations."

Since the first days of this administration it was obvious that it was going to sanitize the nature of America's enemies, gone are such technically accurate terms as jihad, Islamic terrorism and other descriptors essential in identifying what or who it is that we are fighting.

Infamously the first official military report on the bloody jihad carried out by Maj. Nidal Hasan at Ft. Hood where 13 soldiers were gunned down, was cleansed of any reference to jihad or Islam.

It was as if this premeditated act of war which Hasan justified [along with his spiritual advisor the terrorist Anwar al-Awlaki] based upon Islamic scripture, was merely a very bad instance of workplace violence, some disgruntled officer simply "going postal."

From the outside this reeks of insanity, how can you possibly develop a strategy to prevent or if necessary, go to war, with purveyors of "man caused disasters" or simply purveyors of random terrorist attacks?

What can be used to knit events together so that the process may be rendered understandable?

Though such policies are often characterized as matters involving "political correctness," that term is hardly useful, in the same sense that "liberalism" comes nowhere near describing the neo-Marxism which has seized control of the Democrat party. There is nothing liberal about them and there is nothing random about the deeds of Hasan.

The root cause of this phenomenon is an insane obsessive multiculturalism, an issue we have dealt with extensively. When it becomes impermissible to say with assurance that one culture or society is qualitatively superior to another, implying that everything is relative, then it becomes impossible to adequately assemble a threat doctrine, if one is necessary.

A large component of this pervasive multicultural relativism is itself more deeply rooted in what seems to be the West's societal/cultural shame, its lack of faith in its institutions and consequently an inability to morally navigate in a world where real existential threats exist.

Such will be the legacy of this administration. It will have intentionally weakened America in pursuit of some grander scheme.

The perspective this president has and continues to bring to the WH is that of an outsider. Though nominally from this society Mr. Obama is not of this country. He brings with him a set of prejudices which are alien to the culture and much more in line with the "anti-imperial" whining displayed by most of the member states of the United Nations.

August 22, 2012 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - Yesterday the Sacramento Bee carried a press release blasted out by the Council on American Islamic Relations - an American cultural jihadist organization, named in federal court proceedings as being associated with the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas.

We have brought this practice to the Bee's attention previously and, well...they are just too busy to attend to the fact that they have been sucked into the electronic jihad via the newspaper's indiscriminate linking with PR Newswire, an excellent service in its own right.

Regarding the CAIR presser - oh, did we mention the fact that CAIR was also named as an unindicted co-conspirator in U.S. v Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development?

Thought not...

Anyway the gist of CAIR's latest breathless announcement is that once again Killer Bacon has attacked an Islamic sacred place, this time desecrating a "prayer site" located at Staten Island's New Dorp Beach park.

Though the space, from its description anyway, appears to be located in a public area, supported therefore by the area's taxpayers it must have somehow been declared a "bacon free zone."

While it may exist, we are not aware of such zoning restrictions in the area, if this is in error, then by all means have Douggie Hooper [aka Ibrahim] give us a ring, he knows the number.

Such things are important to the extremist Muslim nutcases like those who man the tiller at CAIR.

We can imagine this attack taking place...

A pound of Killer Bacon frees itself from the bondage of the local Piggly Wiggly refrigerated food section and creeps noiselessly into the night, exiting from the mail slot.

From there it could well have hitched a ride from someone complicit in an elaborate Jewish conspiracy or worse from an apostate Muslim who dropped Mr. Bacon off at the appointed time and spot.

The rest is monstrously disturbing.

Killer Bacon approached the outdoor space, first shooing away the stray dogs who were engaged in urinating on it, and then, with murderous intent actually smeared his body all over the place in an act of Islamophobic martyrdom. Given the perverse nature of this attack perhaps it was the work of Shaitan himself.

My goodness, how much longer will such evil be on the loose?

How much longer will Killer Bacon be allowed to prowl America's Islamophobic streets in the dead of night?

Excuse me folks, the phone is ringing...uhhh, Mr. Holder, your Civil Rights Division on the white courtesy phone, sounds urgent. By the way Mr. Attorney General do you run a halal compliant agency?

Post Script: But seriously folks...a society which falls for this type of crap, deserves to be subverted, it's entirely too stupid to save. What sane person wants to live in a culture where grotesque jihadist punks control the dialogue? If that were the case then where are the long lines at the airports filled with people seeking asylum in Riyadh?